On 1999/03/24, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Sorry about the delay in replying to this, but I tried compiling the
> source myself and ran into difficulties, so instead I waited until
> there was a debian package for "nmh-1.0".
>
> I've just tried it with version 1.0 and the same bug occurs. This is
> what I got for a mail file with 8 messages in it:
>
> $ /usr/bin/mh/inc -silent +tmp2
> Segmentation fault
> $ ls
> 1 2 3
>
> But when I don't use the "-silent" option, I get:
>
> $ /usr/bin/mh/inc +tmp2
> Incorporating new mail into tmp2...
(snip)
> Sometimes when this problem occurs, doing the latter (ie without the
> -silent) incorporates successfully as occurs here, but at the end,
> displays a "Segmentation fault".
>
> As you couldn't reproduce this problem yourself, I guess you might be
> right about it being a problem with linux. I should mention that
> quite a few people seem to be having this problem. I will include the mail
> file that gave the above.
>
> > I have recently fixed some problems with sequences that cause core
> > dumps on Linux, so maybe the problem is already fixed.
>
> It would seem this problem is still there. If I can help at all to
> solve this problem, then let me know.
Hi Mark,
I couldn't reproduce the problem here with your attached mail folder.
Can you please try to reproduce it again, by running
strace -o inc.trace inc -silent +tmp2
and send me the resulting file inc.trace? A gzipped core file would be
useful as well.
Also, can you tell me the _exact_ version number of the Debian package
you're using, as well as the contents of your ~/.mh_profile?
Thanks for your cooperation,
Ruud de Rooij (maintainer of the Debian GNU/Linux nmh package)
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Ruud de Rooij
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sepc.twi.tudelft.nl/~derooij/
